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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Provincialism

/prəv-ĭn'-shəl-ĭzˌ-əm/ · Pro·vin·cial·ism · IPA /prəvˈɪnʃəlˌɪzəm/
01 n. A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial c…
  1. 1.
    A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.